Focus on Chromosome Dynamics at UC Davis
Laboratories working on the structure, replication, segregation, organization, mutation, modification, repair or function of chromosomes at UC Davis
 
 
 
 
Enoch P. Baldwin
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
epbaldwin@ucdavis.edu
http://www-crystal.ucdavis.edu/talent/baldwinlab/
Research interest: Manipulation of chromosome structure and content using site-specific
recombination

Anne B. Britt          
Plant Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
abbritt@ucdavis.edu
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/Labs/britt/
Research interest: double strand break repair and damage response  in plants

Sean M. Burgess     
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
smburgess@ucdavis.edu
http://www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/faculty-labs/burgess/
Research interest: Chromosome dynamics and nuclear organization during meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Kenneth C. Burtis    
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
kcburtis@ucdavis.edu
Research interest:

Simon Chan
Plant Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
srchan@ucdavis.edu
http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/Labs/chan/Chan%20Lab.html
Research interest: epigenetic factors involved in centromere function, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Frederic Chedin         
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
flchedin@ucdavis.edu
http://www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/faculty%2Dlabs/chedin/
Research interest: Structure, function, and targeting of mammalian DNA methyltransferases
Hongwu Chen         
Biological Chemistry (School of Medicine)
hwzchen@ucdavis.edu
Research interest:

Roger T. Chetelat 
Plant Sciences
trchetelat@ucdavis.edu
http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/Veghome/Faculty/chetelat/chetelat.htm
Research interest: Homeologous recombination in tomato and the role of the mismatch repair system

Mary Delany
Plant Sciences
medelany@ucdavis.edu
Research interest: Organization and function of repetitive sequences in the “compact” avian genome 

 Jan Dvorak 
Plant Sciences
jdvorak@ucdavis.edu
http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/dvorak/interest.htm
Research interest: evolution of plant chromosome structure

JoAnne Engebrecht
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
jengebrecht@ucdavis.edu
http://www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/faculty-labs/engebrecht/
Research interest: Analysis of chromosome behavior during meiosis

Wolf-Dietrich Heyer
Microbiology (College of Biological Sciences)
wdheyer@ucdavis.edu
http://micro.ucdavis.edu/heyer/
Research interest: Mechanisms and Regulation of Recombinational DNA Repair in Eukaryotes
Neil Hunter
Microbiology (College of Biological Sciences)
nhunter@ucdavis.edu
Research interest: The mechanism and regulation of homologous recombination during meiosis

Peggy J Farnham
Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology (School of Medicine)
pjfarnham@ucdavis.edu
http://www.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/farnham/
Research interest:Characterizing the mechanisms that regulate active and silenced chromatin

Kenneth Kaplan
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
kbkaplan@ucdavis.edu
http://www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/faculty-labs/kaplan/
Research interest: Fidelity of chromosome segregation and how loss of mitotic fidelity contributes to cancer.

Stephen C. Kowalczykowski
Microbiology (College of Biological Sciences)
sckowalczykowski@ucdavis.edu
http://www-mic.ucdavis.edu/sklab/kowalczykowskilab.htm
Research interest: Molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination

Hsing-Jien Kung
Biological Chemistry (School of Medicine)
hkung@ucdavis.edu
Research interest: Post-translational modifications (phosphorylation, demethylation and
sumoylation) of histones in the regulation of hormone receptor functions and
carcinogenesis

Charles H. Langley
Evolution and Ecology (College of Biological Sciences)
chlangley@ucdavis.edu
Research interest:

Janine M. LaSalle
Medical Microbiology and Immunology (School of Medicine)
jmlasalle@ucdavis.edu
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medmicro/staff/lasalle.html
Research interest: Epigenetics and chromatin dynamics in autism-spectrum disorders

Francis J. McNally
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
fjmcnally@ucdavis.edu
http://www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/faculty-labs/mcnally/
Research interest: mechanisms of asymmetric chromosome segregation
during female meiosis in C. elegans 

Martin L. Privalsky
Microbiology (College of Biological Sciences)
mlprivalsky@ucdavis.edu
http://micro.ucdavis.edu/privalsky/
Research interest: how chromatin modifications serve to regulate gene expression

John Roth 
jrroth@ucdavis.edu
http://rothlab.ucdavis.edu/
Research interests: bacterial genetics, recombination, chromosome  rearrangement mechanisms, origins of mutation during growth under selection  (adaptive  mutation), processes of natural selection.

Jonathan M. Scholey
Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Biological Sciences)
jmscholey@ucdavis.edu
http://www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/faculty-labs/scholey/
Research interest: Mechanisms of Mitosis

David Jay Segal
Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology (School of Medicine)
djsegal@ucdavis.edu
Research interest: Engineering custom DNA-binding proteins with the intent to reprogram
or image information on chromosomes
www.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/segal/

Michael Syvanen
Medical Microbiology and Immunology (School of Medicine)
msyvanen@ucdavis.edu
Research interest:


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